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Walz's appointees made adherence to progressive ideology a requirement for Minnesota teachers
The Minnesota Professional Educators Licensing and Standards Board, which consists of members appointed by Walz, implemented a new set of rules related to licensing and academic standards for teachers in the state.
Under the new "Standards of Effective Practice" for Minnesota teachers, educators are expected to provide "opportunities for students to learn about power, privilege, intersectionality, and systemic oppression in the context of various communities."
Teachers are also required to teach their students to act as "agents of social change to promote equity" and understand "the diverse impacts of individual and systemic trauma," including "racism, and micro and macro aggressions, on learning and development" in addition to embracing "culturally responsive strategies and resources to address these impacts."
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To meet the requirements established by the Minnesota Professional Educators Licensing and Standards Board, teachers are expected to foster "an environment that ensures student identities such as race/ethnicity, national origin, language, sex and gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical/developmental/mental ability, socioeconomic class, and religious beliefs are historically and socially contextualized, affirmed, and incorporated into a learning environment where students are empowered to learn and contribute as their whole selves."
The new requirements caused concern that teachers with deeply held religious beliefs about the biological and unchangeable nature of sex would be forced to identify trans-identified students by names and pronouns associated with their stated gender identity as opposed to their biological sex.
First proposed in 2021, the new standards officially went into effect last month.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
